Intel Driver Support Assistant (DSA) drops scan error

[German]A German blog reader recently contacted me by mail and reported issues with the Intel Driver Support Assistant during scanning. I decided to publish a small blog post about it.

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Windows Virtual Desktop News (April 30, 2020)

[German]Now that more people are working at home because of Corona (COVID-19), the remote desktop is becoming more important. Therefore Microsoft has introduced some innovations in the area of Windows Virtual Desktop on April 30, 2020.

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Records Management in Microsoft 365

Short information for administrators in the area of Microsoft 365: Microsoft has announced its one records management solution as of April 30, 2020. This enables regulatory, legal and business critical records to be managed across enterprise data. Details can be read in this document.

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Exchange Online Service disruption (30.4. – 1.5.2020)

[German]Brief info: Blog reader Andreas P. informed me by mail about service disruptions at Exchange Online that started end of April and still continues on May 1, 2020.

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Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19041.208 as new RTM

[German]As of April 30, 2020, Microsoft has released the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19041.208 as a new RTM in the Release Preview Ring. This is the 20H1 development branch, which will soon be released as Windows 10 May 2020 Update (Version 2004).

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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

[Sponsored Post]In the rapidly evolving IT world, choosing the right remote desktop software is critical for organizations that value security, ease of use and reliability. One provider of secure remote access that has been on the market since 2001 is ISL Online, which presents some considerations for choosing such software below. More ...


Huge data leak at French newspaper Le Figaro

[German]There has been a data leak at the French newspaper Le Figaro where personal data of subscribers, sometimes even passwords in plain text, have been disclosed.

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Security update Chromium Edge 81.0.416.68

EdgeMicrosoft released a security update for the Chromium Edge browser on 29 April 2020 (see ADV200002). Edge 81.0.416.68 fixes the vulnerabilities CVE-2020-6461 and CVE-2020-6462. The new Chromium Edge can be downloaded from this website.

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Sysmon v11.0 from Sysinternals tools released

[German]Microsoft employee Mark Russinovich released his Sysinternals tool Sysmon in version 11.0 on April 28, 2020. Here is some information about it. And also a look how the whole thing looks like from a security point of view.

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PowerToys 0.17 with Auto Update released

[German]Microsoft released version 0.17 of PowerToys for Windows 10 users a few hours ago. These tools are free and offer nice additional features for Windows 10. The new version 0.17 includes the code for an auto-update for the tools, but it can be tested with upcoming v0.18.

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WordPress 5.4.1 released

[German]The WordPress developers have released a maintenance update to version 5.4.1 on April 29-30, 2020. This fixes 11 bugs, which are described in the release notes. This also includes six fixed vulnerabilities. I had a manual update of my blog done. This worked without flaws. 

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